Age

24

Job Title

Bedding House Manager

Company

Ray Wiegand’s Nursery & Garden Center, Macomb, Mich.

Accomplishments

Manages all of company’s annuals production and nearly doubled production in one year; Certified Green Industry Professional and Member of Michigan Nursery & Landscape Association, serves on multiple OFA committees; Only person to ever serve two years as president of Horticulture Club at Michigan State University.

Extracurricular

Favorite hobby: Vegetable gardening. “Growing every variety of vegetable is exciting to me;” Favorite flix: The Bourne series (The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum). “I love the action and the constant change of pace.”

Fun Fact

Secret talent: Jim is a certified scuba diver who has dived in Mexico and Canada.